Are Most Manufacturing Industries In Western Europe And Japan Moving To China Like They Have Been In The Usa?
Posted by IT CommentatorAug 16
Are many companies closing their factories down in Britain, Germany, Sweden, France, Japan, etc., and moving their entire production operations to China like so many American companies are doing? Or, are some of these countries protecting their local industries with tarriffs and regulations, etc.? Which specific 1st world countries are fighting deindustrialization if they are at all?
I think Europe was way ahead of the U.S.A. in this.
The only manufacturing left in the U.K. is really high end sophisticated stuff, everything else has been moved to china.
Have your call centres been ‘outsourced’ to India yet?
My god, much work in Britain has gone off to India and China. I am surprised we still have jobs here!! It makes me sick because clearly companies are doing this because costs are cheaper in these such countries, but do we see a reduction in the costs of goods/services? No!! the big companies pocket the profit all for themselves!! I don’t know about the US but here in Britain a lot of call centres moved and operated from India and it has had dire consequences in that customers have been complaining due to being unable to understand the many operators and as a result companies are beginning to move back, not all of them!!
Yes a lot of jobs have already moved over seas to other countries. It sucks on sooo many levels. firstly jobs are getting taken away from the british public, scond we arent seeing any benefit (lower prices) from it and thirdly the human rites in these countries are dodgey at best.
So everyone is getting screwed over apart from those at the top of the tree who are just getting richer.
tariffs and regulations etc don’t protect (mature) local industry, they stop them from becoming efficient and competitive. If factories are moving their operations to China it means local industry need to work to become more competitive so factory operations are viable there, or cut their losses and concentrate on an activity that they have a competitive advantage in.